Curl Post Json data not being read in Python Django

Question

Am using curl exe in windows, to communicate with my Django backend.

Following is the command am using.

curl --dump-header - -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data "{\"uid\":12,\"token\":\"asdert\"}" http://localhost:8000/restapi/v1/foo/

Now this give the data in wrong format. i.e. in the view the post is showing this data print request.POST

{"{\"uid\":12,\"access_token\":\"asdert\"}": [""]}

What is the correct way to post json data ?

Edit:

I have tried several other methods for e.g. I am trying to communiate with my rest api using http://slumber.in/.

Even here am getting the same result as above.

import slumber
api = slumber.API("http://localhost/restapi/v1/"
api.foo.post({"uid":"100"})

Excerpts from the view print request.POST

 {u'{"uid": "100"}': [u'']}

P.S. - curl --dump-header - -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data "uid=12&token=asdert" http://localhost:8000/restapi/v1/foo/

This works. But this is not Json format.

Answer 1

I tried your command with http://httpbin.org/post and it worked fine.

Now, your problem is that you should access the incoming JSON data from

request.raw_post_data

instead of request.POST.

(Or if you are using Django 1.4+, use request.body instead as request.raw_post_data is being deprecated)

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Detailed code should be something like this:

import json

if request.method == "POST":
    data = json.loads(request.raw_post_data)
    print data